The New Hampshire Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, in partnership with the Community Health Institute, contracted with the University of New Hampshire Survey Center to include a set of questions on its Spring 2018 Granite State Poll. The goal was to better understand how New Hampshire (NH) residents perceive threats to the environment and their health. Five hundred and fifteen (515) randomly selected NH adults were interviewed by landline and cellular telephone between April 2 and April 12, 2018.

According to the survey results, half of NH residents (50%) are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about threats to drinking water in their home such as arsenic and bacteria. And less than 40% are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about threats to indoor environment in their home such as mold, radon or lead as well as threats to outdoor air quality around their home such as traffic exhaust or industrial emissions.